Ice-cream cone.



H. T. ALLEN.

ICE CREAM CONE.

APPLICATION FILED APR.19.1915.

Patented Sept. 14, 1915.

HARRY T. ALLEN, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY.

ICE-CREAM GONE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY T. ALLEN, a citizen of the United States,residing at East Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ice-Cream Cones, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to ice cream cones and has as its object toprovide a cone which may be manufactured at less cost than the ordinarycone and which will serve, not only as a receptacle for ice cream, butalso as an advertising novelty.

Another aim of the invention is to provide an ice cream cone so formedthat the successive portions thereof may be removed as the contents areconsumed.

Another aim of the invention is to provide an ice cream cone of suchshape that the contents may be more conveniently consumed than ispossible with the ordinary cone.

The invention also aims to provide an ice cream cone which may bemanufactured from material of such nature as not liable to becomesoftened when subjected to moisture.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of the coneembodying the present invention; Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof, thecone being shown collapsed; Fig. 3 is a plan view of the blank fromwhich the cone is formed.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the samereference characters.

The ice cream cone embodying the present invention is preferably madefrom a blank such as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, which blank is ofparaflin paper or any other suitable material of a non-edible characterand of such nature as to permit of advertising matter being printedthereon.

The blank, which is indicated by the nu- 1 meral 1, has a scallopedoutline and in forming up the blank, the same is rolled to produce ahollow cone, such as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings. As clearlyshown in Fig. 3, the blank is approximately ovate in form and the upperand side edges thereof are formed with a number of scallops 2 which, inthe finished article, serve to reinforce the same and also to render thecone ornamental. As the blank from which the cone is formed isrelatively broad, at its lower portion, the apex or minor end of thecone will be efiectually reinforced, due to the rnulti-ply nature of thesame. As the blank is substantially of ovate form, when it is rolled toform the completed article, ahollow body havlng the form of a scalenecone will be produced and this body may be flattened out, as shown inFig. 2 of the drawings, to permit of a number of the cones being stackedtogether or the cones may be nested in the ordinary manner. As beforestated, the material from which the blank is formed 15 of a non-ediblecharacter and it is, therefore, desirable that the cone be soconstructed that successive portions thereof may be removed as thecontents is consumed. With this object in view, the cone is weakenedcircumferentially as, for example, by perforations 3, along linesoccupying planes diagonal to the plane of the base or major end of thecone. In the present instance, two of such perforations are shown, butit will be understood that a single line may be formed in the wall ofthe cone or three or more lines may be formed therein. It will furtherbe understood that the wall'of the cone may be weakened in some mannerother than by the formation of perforations.

In the use of the cone, when a portion of the contents has beenconsumed. the portion or section of the cone, indicated specifically inthe drawings by the numeral 4:, is severed by tearing along the upperline of perforations 3. After a further portion of the contents of thecone has been consumed, the next lower section of the cone, indicated at5, is in a similar manner removed. It will be observed that, due to thefact that the lines of perforations 3 occupy planes diagonal to theplane of the base of the body, the angular position of the plane of thebase of the body will be varied when the portion 4 is removed and theposition of the base will be otherwise changed when the portionfipeciflcation of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 1%, 1915, Applicationfiled April 19, 1915. Serial No. 22,508.

2. An article of the class described comprising a hollow body having theform of a soalene cone and having its wall weakened along a lineoccupying a. plane diagonal to the plane of the base of the body.

3. An articleof the class described comprising a hollow body having theform of a scalene cone and having its wall weakened by a line ofperforations occupying a plane diagonal to the plane of the base of thebody, the line of perforations terminating at each end at spaced pointsin the perimeter of the base of the body.

4. As a new article of manufacture, an

ice cream cone comprising a hollow body 15 having the form of a scalenecone, the wall of the body being formed with a plurality of lines ofperforations, the said lines of perforations extending parallel to eachother and nonparallel to the base of the 20 HARRY T. ALLEN. [L.s.]

Witnesses:

D. R. WALLs, EDWARD F. GREEN.

